We've started to use these in New Jersey and they seem to work well. Also, while driving around France I noticed these everywhere and they worked like a charm./Jersey... home of the jug handle and Jersey barrier

My first experience with "real" roundabouts was in Ireland, so I had that whole driving on the wrong side of the road thing to deal with as well. They connect major roadways with roundabouts. The first try was a little intimidating, but they are completely idiot proof. No clue if they are American proof.

We put a two-laner in here at one of our busiest and most crashiest intersections.

Before the decision was made and during construction people were screaming about it, but now that it's in even the naysayers have admitted it's way better than sitting at those friggin' lights forever.

We've started to use these in New Jersey and they seem to work well. Also, while driving around France I noticed these everywhere and they worked like a charm./Jersey... home of the jug handle and Jersey barrier

We converted a bunch of the worst intersections in town to roundabouts and they work brilliantly. Of course, all the stupid old right-wing retards mail endless editorials deriding them as complicated, dangerous and Euro-socialist.

R.A.Danny:My first experience with "real" roundabouts was in Ireland, so I had that whole driving on the wrong side of the road thing to deal with as well. They connect major roadways with roundabouts. The first try was a little intimidating, but they are completely idiot proof. No clue if they are American proof.

They generally are. MoDOT has been sticking them in any place they can instead of intersections with new projects. Much nicer. No wasted gas.

We've started to use these in New Jersey and they seem to work well. Also, while driving around France I noticed these everywhere and they worked like a charm./Jersey... home of the jug handle and Jersey barrier

You were lucky. A few of the French roundabouts still have 'priorité à droite' - i.e. give way to people joining the roundabout. If you want to see hilarity ensuing, they're a good place to see it.

DVDave:Genju: Link (new window) We call it the roundabout of death. Especially for pedestrians.

Kinda cool you get a Subway and a GameStop in the roundabout.

Until you go to it and try to leave. I-95 is a stone's throw east of that intersection and people blaze through it at 40 mph. To the south of it is an elementary school, so kids have to cross it. Not so safe.

But yeah, kind of funny to listen to it while you eat. It's like a swarm of bees buzzing in your ear kind of sound.

We converted a bunch of the worst intersections in town to roundabouts and they work brilliantly. Of course, all the stupid old right-wing retards mail endless editorials deriding them as complicated, dangerous and Euro-socialist.

Alice Zator, whose business sits at the planned roundabout site on Oak Park Avenue and 183rd Street. "My concern is, are there other options? Why would we do something that's not familiar to the Midwest?"

You've got to remember, that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know . . . morons.

round about bad: they are space hogs. the land inside the circle is unusable and if you are trying to maximize lots/acre or commercial frontage, leaves great swaths of open land around it unusable as well. ... oh,yeah, and they are not pedestrian friendly, IMHO